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Plumber's Customer Won't Pay In Full, Sweet Grout Revenge Ensues

Man, this is a fine example of why it pays to be a reasonable, good human being, and not mess with your servicemen. This plumber was just doing his job, to the requirements asked of him, and the clients decided to make a mess of the whole peaceful operation. Clearly, they were trying to skip out on paying the whole bill. So, the plumber was extra sweet with finishing up the job. What might seem like a petty revenge on the surface, really evolves to be more of a cold and calculated pro revenge that likely haunted the folks for a long while after the job was "done."




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Woman Finds Worm In Salad, Surprising Customer Service Story Ensues

Just the idea of finding a worm in a salad is enough to send some shivers running up the spine. Fortunately, in this case, after the worm was discovered, a surprising, but welcomed customer service story developed. Basically, Sainsbury's pulled through in the clutch to address the situation with some serious grace. 




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Happy 20th Anniversary to Storm Front!

Last week’s Dresden Drop looked to the future, revealing the long-awaited trailer for Peace Talks and the bombshell announcement that there will be TWO Dresden novels this year. This week, we’ll look to the past, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of Storm Front on April 1st, 2000. Paranoid? Probably. But just because you’re [...]




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Microfiction #4, Costume Contest Reminder, Dresden Card Game on Switch, and Trailer Milestone

The big draw this week is our fourth Microfiction, but there’s plenty more to get excited about! We’ve got the Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game’s debut on switch, an upcoming Trailer Rewatch event, a $1.99 ebook deal on Death Masks, and more. It’s also the last week to submit your costumes for our contest. Read [...]





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The sun is too quiet, which may mean dangerous solar storms in future

Stars that are similar to the sun in every way we can measure are mostly more active than the sun, which hints that the sun’s activity may ramp up someday, risking solar eruptions




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Friday Polynews Roundup — More on sweet polyam on ABC sitcom, a Christian writer self-trolls, and that damn word "throuple" becomes unstoppable




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Friday Polynews Roundup — Triad storyline on "The Connors," Black Poly Nation gets TV rep, loving polyfamily profiles, community dreams, and evangelical worry that this all hits too close to home



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Idaho governor appeals to Supreme Court to stop trans inmate's surgery

A lower court had ruled that the prisoner’s gender-affirming surgery is a medical necessity, and denying it constituted a violation of the Eighth Amendment.





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The 'mind-blowing' story of the ex-Green Beret who tried to oust Venezuela's Maduro

Jordan Goudreau once pushed a plan to protect U.S. schools. Then he moved on to a more daring pursuit, which also didn't end well.





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Winston Churchill's inspiring wartime speeches in Parliament

As his great grandson launches a competition to "inspire like Churchill", we look at the PM's wartime words.




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The FBI said I was my parents' stolen baby - but I found the truth

Foundling Paul Fronczak was given to a family whose baby had been stolen - but was he really their son?




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Robot offers help to human co-workers and other tech stories

BBC Click's Jen Copestake looks at some of the best of the week's technology stories.




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Are Object Stores Starting to Look Like Databases?

#300 — April 17, 2020

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Database Weekly

Are Object Stores Starting to Look Like Databases? — Technically, any repository of data could be considered a ‘database’ but now object stores, such as those vast repositories of data sitting behind an S3 API, are beginning to resemble more structured, traditional databases in many ways. This feels a trend and market that will continue to grow in the near future.

Alex Woodie (Datanami)

Event-Reduce: An Algorithm to Optimize Frequently Running Queries — In brief, the idea is that rather than having to re-run queries when data changes on a table, you can basically merge in changes to previous query results. Be sure to check the FAQs.

Daniel Meyer

ACID Transactions in NoSQL? RavenDB Vs MongoDB by Mor Hilai — Where did the stereotype that only relational databases can be fully ACID come from? How did two NoSQL databases, MongoDB & RavenDB, become ACID at the cluster level?

RavenDB sponsor

TerminusDB: A Technical History — We’ve featured it before, but TerminusDB is an open source in-memory graph database built around WOQL (the Web Object Query Language). Here’s an explanation of where it came from and why it exists.

Luke Feeney

Comparing Redis 6's New Multithreaded I/O to ElastiCache and KeyDB — Redis 6 is on the way with threaded I/O being one of the likely new features. KeyDB is a Redis fork whose raison d’etre has been being multithreaded so this comparison may be of interest, though do note that this comes from KeyDB itself.

Ben Schermel (KeyDB)

Intersecting GPS Tracks to Identify Infected Individuals — I’m not a huge fan of COVID-19 related content, but this is a pretty interesting technique with numerous use cases. Essentially it uses PostGIS to identify overlapping paths.

Florian Nadler

Authentication Configuration in PostgreSQL and CockroachDB — In these databases, client authentication can be controlled via a ‘HBA’ (host-based authentication) file.

Raphael ‘kena’ Poss

How MongoDB Enables Machine Learning — If you haven’t played with the popular document-oriented database in a while, you can do quite a few things with it nowadays, including training and using ML algorithms.

Mani Yangkatisal

▶  'We Got that Database', an 'All About that Bass' Parody — This is for fun only! A group of librarians have put together a fun database flavored parody of the rather irritating Meghan Trainor hit ????

Tredyffrin Libraries on YouTube

6 SQL Tricks Every Data Scientist Should Know

Yi Li

Why We Index Everything — Tired of managing indexes to speed up queries? Rockset automatically indexes every field in a row-based store, column-based store, and search index.

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Falcon: An Open-Source, Cross Platform SQL Client — Built around Electron and React, this basic client can quickly do chart visualizations of query results and can connect to RedShift, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Impala, MS SQL, Oracle, SQLite and more.

Plotly

GeoDB: A Persistent Geospatial Database with Geofencing and Google Maps Support — Built using Badger gRPC and the Google Maps API. Track the geolocation of objects across boundaries or in relation to other objects.

Coleman Word

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‘Justice not charity’ - the blind marchers who made history

Remembering the maverick blind campaigners who walked to London a century ago to demand equality.




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Coronavirus: Here's how you can stop bad information from going viral

Experts are calling on the public to practise ‘information hygiene’ to help stop the spread of falsehoods online.




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Stop and search: the controversial police power

Reporter Aaron Roach Bridgeman speaks to suspects, police and campaigners.




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Mission XI Million milestone children at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi

Mission XI Million milestone children at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.




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Semis set in stone

The four teams who will see us through to the final day of FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016 have been settled, as Russia and Iran were joined by Argentina and Portugal in the semi-finals.




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History in the making for semi-final pair

Argentina and Portugal both have their sights on making their first ever FIFA Futsal World Cup final when they go head to head in Cali. FIFA.com previews the crucial Colombia 2016 semi-final.




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Seven questions to Skorovich and Giustozzi

To lift the FIFA Futsal World Cup, teams must successfully negotiate seven matches, as Russia and Argentina – the Colombia 2016 finalists who will lock horns on Saturday – know all too well. Prior to that decisive duel, FIFA.com posed seven questions to the coaches of the two surviving teams. 

 




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Argentina roll on, Venezuela make history




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1 day to go: Brilliant Blancos make more history




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Firmino writes Liverpool into Club World Cup history




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Liverpool’s history boys add a brand new chapter




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Gerardo Battistoni of Argentina stretches during the warm up

CALI, COLOMBIA - SEPTEMBER 28: Gerardo Battistoni of Argentina stretches during the warm up before the FIFA Futsal World Cup Semi-Final match between Argentina and Portugal at the Coliseo El Pueblo stadium on September 28, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Alex Caparros - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Gerardo Battistoni of Argentina looks on as he warms up

CALI, COLOMBIA - SEPTEMBER 28: Gerardo Battistoni of Argentina looks on as he warms up before the FIFA Futsal World Cup Semi-Final match between Argentina and Portugal at the Coliseo El Pueblo stadium on September 28, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Alex Caparros - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Head Coach Diego Giustozzi of Argentina and his coaching staff stand

BUCARAMANGA, COLOMBIA - SEPTEMBER 22: Head Coach Diego Giustozzi of Argentina and his coaching staff stand for the playing of their national anhtem prior to round of 16 match play between Argentina and Ukraine in the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup at Coliseo Bicentenario on September 22, 2016 in Bucaramanga, Colombia. Argentina defeated Ukraine 1-0 in extra time. (Photo by Victor Decolongon - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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A Montage showing Sergey Skorovich, coach of Russia, and Diego Giustozzi, coach of Argentina, at the FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016

A Montage showing Sergey Skorovich, coach of Russia, and Diego Giustozzi, coach of Argentina, at the FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016




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Diego Giustozzi the coach of Argentina is seen in the tunnel

Diego Giustozzi the coach of Argentina is seen in the tunnel prior to the FIFA Futsal World Cup Final match between Russia and Argentina at the Coliseo el Pueblo Stadiumon October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Ian MacNicol - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Diego Giustozzi the coach of Argentina is thrown in the air

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Diego Giustozzi the coach of Argentina is thrown in the air by his team during the FIFA Futsal World Cup Final match between Russia and Argentina at the Coliseo el Pueblo Stadiumon October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Ian MacNicol - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Diego Giustozzi the coach of Argentina is seen with the winners trophy

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Diego Giustozzi the coach of Argentina is seen with the winners trophy during the FIFA Futsal World Cup Final match between Russia and Argentina at the Coliseo el Pueblo Stadiumon October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Ian MacNicol - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Coach of Argentina Diego Giustozzi carries the World Cup troph

Coach of Argentina Diego Giustozzi carries the World Cup trophy after the victory during the FIFA Futsal World Cup final between Russia and Argentina at Coliseo el Pueblo on October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Alex Caparros - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Coach of Argentina Diego Giustozzi celebrates after the victory

Coach of Argentina Diego Giustozzi celebrates after the victory the FIFA Futsal World Cup final between Russia and Argentina at Coliseo el Pueblo on October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Jan Kruger - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Quartet make history at Paraguay 2019




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FIFA Bring Someone Special – Adityanshu’s Story

During the 2018 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia, thousands of fans from around the world entered in the Bring Someone Special contest, where they shared what special person they would bring to the Opening Match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ and why. Winner Adityanshu has chosen his inspirational mother, Devashree, and will be sitting in the Luzhniki Stadium for the Opening Match next year. Together, they share their compelling story! For information on tickets to the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ please visit http://www.FIFA.com/tickets.




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India 2017, the story so far

It has been one incredible journey at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in India. Here are some of the moments to cherish.




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The top scorers in Confederatons Cup history

One Mexican and one Brazilian player share the record for most goals scored in the history of the FIFA Confederations Cup with nine - who are they?




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Top goals in Confederations Cup history (1992 - 2009)

The Festival of Champions has always been full of exciting moments and fantastic goals, as you can see from the 13 best strikes in the history of the event (1992 - 2009).




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48 days to go: Al-Bishi’s historic strike

FIFA.com has begun the countdown to the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 in Russia, and from now until the start we will share an interesting fact about the tournament every day. Today we remember the first goal scored at the inaugural Confederations Cup.




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Story of the Day: Russia 2017 Matchday 1

Musical review of an action-packed opening day of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017




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Story of the Day: Russia 2017 Matchday 2

A music review of an action packed second day of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017




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Story of the Day: Russia 2017 Matchday 3

A musical review of the third day of action at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017.




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Story of the Day: Russia 2017 Matchday 4

We review all the action of the fourth day of the FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.




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Story of the Day: Russia 2017 Matchday 5

A musical review of an action-packed fifth Matchday at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017.




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The Story of Matchday 6 at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017

A music review of an action packed sixth Matchday at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017, which saw Portugal and Mexico progress to the semi-final stage and hosts Russia bow out.




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The Story of Matchday 7 at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017

A music review of an action packed seventh Matchday at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017, which saw Germany and Chile secure their places in the semi-finals.




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The Story of Matchday 8 at Russia 2017

A musical review of a dramatic Matchday 8 at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017, which saw Chile progress to the final after Claudio Bravo's penalty heroics.




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The Story of Matchday 9 at Russia 2017

A music review of Matchday 9 at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017, which saw Germany book their place in the Final against Chile after a comprehensive victory over Mexico.